- What's a good towel to take with you while traveling?
In this video, we're gonna be taking a look
at the PackTowl Personal, an antimicrobial microfiber towel
that's small enough to fit in your pack
but big enough to bring to the beach and lay out on.
Let's check it out.
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Hey, what's up. It's Tom from Pack Hacker coming at you
from my AirBnB in Fremantle, also known as Freo
from the local Australians here in Perth.
Now, Australia has been spoiling me
with some of the best beaches
so I've been using my microfiber towel quite a bit.
This microfiber towel is great to have at the beach.
You can also use it at a hostel.
Maybe they don't have towels there,
or maybe an AirBnB forgets to provide you with towels.
Although this one did.
It's very good.
One pro tip of this thing is that
if you're doing your laundry in the sink
or somewhere where you don't have access to a dryer
and you need things to dry a little bit faster
just grab your clothes, roll them up inside of this thing.
Boom, gonna cut the drying time down by a lot.
So there's this handy clip on the corner of the towel itself
where you can hang it on your bag or off a hook
or something like that.
Now my one gripe with this is the placement of it.
Since it is on the corner, if you do attach it to your bag
it can hang down quite a bit
and potentially drag on the floor.
There are other ways to hang this on your bag,
but just be mindful of that if you end up picking this up.
Don't drag your towel across the floor and get it more dirty
than it was before you washed it.
What's the benefit of an antimicrobial towel?
Well, basically it's lasts a longer without smelling bad.
PackTowl has what they call a polygiene odor control
inside of this thing and it's actually woven
into the fabric itself.
So after a couple washes, after it gets wet a couple times,
it's not going to rinse off or anything like that.
As long as the fabric is intact,
the antimicrobial properties are there as well.
There are a bunch of different colors and sizes available.
Now, this is the body size which is also considered
the extra large size in the Eclipse color.
On top of that we have a bunch of other colors and sizes.
There's a small size which PackTowl talks about
using for your face.
There's a medium size.
There is a large size which basically equates
to the size of a hand towel.
There's the extra large size which is what I have here
that equates to a body towel.
And finally we have the double XL size
which is also called the beach size
which is basically the size of a beach towel.
I used to travel with a small microfiber towel
maybe the size of a washcloth
and I would just kinda towel off
after that in the shower.
But I did go with a little bit of a larger size here
so that I could use it on the beach
and haven't looked back since.
Really nice for that purpose.
They've also got a variety of different colors.
This one's the Eclipse color.
On top of that we have Indigo, Citrus, Berry, and Blue Bird.
I love how epic the color sounds.
It's just a towel.
Eclipse.
Hey I got my Eclipse towel.
We did weigh this thing and it came it at 6.9 ounces.
Now, on the PackTowl website they do note that this
will hold four times its own weight in water.
And as far as the physical measurements go,
it's going to be 8.5 by 5.25 by 1.5 inches
when it's in its compressed state
inside this litte half-mesh, half-solid pouch.
Now, this pouch is pretty nice to have on hand.
I do like that it's mesh on one side.
It makes it a little bit more breathable.
It fastens by a zipper as well.
And it was a little weird, at first, to fold this up.
But I found that if you fold it in thirds,
and then continue to fold it in half,
you can easily slide it back into the case.
There is a handy dandy clip on this mesh case
if you want to hang it up anywhere
when it's in its compressed state.
Does feel a little bit cheap, but at the end of the day
the clip is not designed to hold that much weight.
So, I guess it's okay.
Alright, that's it for the PackTowl Personal size.
I hope this video helped you.
There is a link below to learn more and purchase.
Thanks for checking this out.
We'll see you in the next video.
I was gonna do this whole thing in an Australian accent but
Ah mate, let's go down to the beach.
This towel is very snappy.
(towel snaps)
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